Andrew Garfield’s 10 Best Movies (According To Rotten Tomatoes)

Andrew Garfield is a talented actor as seen in movies like The Social Network & Hacksaw Ridge. Here are his 10 best movies on Rotten Tomatoes.

Andrew Garfield’s still-nascent career reads like a much better version of fellow luscious brunette Vincent Chase’s career with a meteoric rise capped off with a superhero franchise, collaboration with some of the most renowned filmmakers of all time, and an Oscar nomination.

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He has rarely leaned on it entirely, preferring to push himself into challenging yet rewarding roles in prestigious projects. Yet at only 36 and with the most handsomely boyish of faces, it feels like Andrew Garfield is just getting started. Upcoming projects include the titular role in a James Rhodes biopic and a part in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s major directorial debut Tick, Tick…Boom. In the meantime, the prestigious projects he has taken on have paid off as reflected by the high-rated films on Rotten Tomatoes. Here are Andrew Garfield’s top ten movies on the website.

Never Let Me Go (70%)

This sci-fi exploration perpetrated by boundary-pushers Mark Romanek and Alex Garland is also the only romance movie on this list. That is remarkable, considering Andrew Garfield’s impeccable looks and nice guy sensibility.

His co-star Carey Mulligan has a nose for similar roles that draw the attention of more critics than crowds. She followed this turn with parts in Drive and Shame, both films which, while enjoyable for a cinephile, are about as unrelenting and unpalatable to the everyday moviegoer as can be. A decade after Never Let Me Go, both of these stars are still rising and perhaps due for an Oscar-buzzworthy reprise pairing.

The Amazing Spider-Man (73%)

Following the culmination of Tobey Maguire’s turn as Spider-Man by only five years and preceding Tom Holland by even less time, fans can only be inclined to argue about who is the superior web-slinger. For reference, the 2002 debut installment from Maguire, Sam Raimi, and company holds a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming a 92%.

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If Andrew Garfield dwells on the arbitrary numbers, what might Maguire and Holland have to say about the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse registering a 97%? It’s apparently all relative and definitely all enjoyable.

Silence (83%)

In the face of claims that Martin Scorsese is a one-trick pony remaking the same mob film over and over, contemporary fans will often present this largely-overlooked tale of missionaries as a counterargument. Garfield joins the now piping-hot Adam Driver in beard and robe as the two travel to hostile 17th century Japan.

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Also appearing in the film is Liam Neeson who, coincidentally, can also be found alongside Robert De Niro in 1986’s The Mission. Apparently Neeson has a very particular set of skills that are perfect for portraying traveling priests in the pre-industrial era.

Hacksaw Ridge (85%)

There are not many directorial careers in Hollywood more bizarre than that of Mel Gibson. The former blockbuster action hero was at the helm of his own bonafide classic Braveheart, the gory and reverent Passion of the Christ, and the enjoyable Apocalypto before going on hiatus, no doubt in part due to a controversy which soiled his reputation. More than a decade after Apocalypto, Gibson tapped Andrew Garfield for his Oscar-approved return, Hacksaw Ridge.

Garfield occupies the space of a true-to-life conscientious objector in a film that didn’t capture as much attention as other war romps of its era but is worthy of its tale.

Boy A (88%)

Andrew Garfield’s big-screen debut was this meditative approach to a sinister topic. He portrays Eric Wilson, a young man who has just completed a prison sentence for a violent crime for which he was convicted as an adolescent. Garfield’s capability to emit inner innocence despite his surroundings and even his actions undoubtedly caught the eyes of filmmakers who would go on to cast him in stories like The Social Network and the previously-discussed Hacksaw Ridge.

Boy A is based on the 2004 novel of the same name. It was the debut novel of the up-and-coming author Jonathan Trigell, who has only added three works to his bibliography since.

Red Riding: 1983 (91%)

The Red Riding trilogy occupies three spots on this list. It is a seedy movie series produced for U.K. television that follows Eddie Dunford (Garfield) as he chases down the details of the real-life Yorkshire Ripper killings.

Throughout the three films, Dunford crosses paths with shady cops, mobsters, and evil is ultimately revealed in more than one serial killer’s soul.

Red Riding: 1980 (92%)

The Red Riding trilogy, according to Rotten Tomatoes, follows the standard pattern of the original installment being best and things going downhill from there. Notably, each of the films has a different director – 1980’s being the only one who is an Oscar winner. James Marsh won Best Documentary Feature in 2008 for his perspiration-inducing Man on Wire and also was behind the successful Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything.

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Working against it, 1980 is the only part of the series that does not include the wonderful Sean Bean. He is replaced by an overall larger cast of characters and increasing plot chaos. Whether a viewer is willing to make that type of familiarity-for-expansion tradeoff might be indicative of their preference for or against series storytelling.

99 Homes (93%)

If 99 Homes was underhyped and underseen upon release, it’s due to its reliance on a somewhat complex and leaden backdrop. Broken socioeconomic frameworks and real estate fraud don’t exactly scream “thrill ride.” But those who got around to the 2015 drama were rewarded, as this Rotten Tomatoes score reflects. The Audience Score is even a respectable 78%.

The film’s highlight, undoubtedly, is the chemistry between Garfield and Hollywood journeyman Michael Shannon. The former’s typical deer in the headlights act begins to be compromised when in contact with the latter’s signature unhinged ruthlessness. Shannon was nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG but was snubbed at Oscar time.

The Social Network (96%)

Highly-regarded David Fincher is the filmmaker behind such shocking thrillers as Panic Room, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Zodiac. If it wasn’t clear in 2010 why the business-class story of the founding of a social media app appealed to him, it has only become more apparent. As Facebook scandals mount along with users, Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg retrospectively increases in sinisterness.

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Garfield takes on cut-out Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. His pitiable mug pulls its weight in villanizing the robotic Zuckerberg character.

Red Riding: 1974 (100%)

To some degree, the Red Riding trilogy has benefitted from the Rotten Tomatoes schema by being under the radar. The Channel 4 release has been marked up by only twelve critics compared to The Social Network’s, an Oscar-darling collaboration between Hollywood royalty Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher, three-hundred and seventeen. That said, a pure 100% is nothing to scoff at.

If you find yourself with some extra time on your hands and think you might be intrigued by a gory murder mystery, you might be in luck, considering the lack of awareness of this gem you’ve now uncovered!

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